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Undergraduate Record 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

ISSS 4271 - Emergence of Cities and States

Effective Start Date: 08/01/2011
Focuses on the emergence and collapse of complex societies in both the Old (Mesopotamia and Egypt) and New (Valley of Mexico and Maya Lowlands) Worlds. Combines archaeological, textual and ethnographic evidence to understand the establishment of villages at the end of the Ice Age, and the origin of the first cities and their abandonment.

Credits: 3